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alice got shot in the right eye by a copper pellet BB Gun by her youngest brother when she was eight years old.
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Alice took part in the 1960's civil rights movement in Mississippi
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graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
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she worked as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer after she graduated from college
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she published her first set of short stories, In Love and Trouble; Revolutionary Petunias; and a childrens book.
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Walker's career to become a writer took flight when she published her third novel, The Color Purple in 1982
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the compelling work of her writing won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also the National Book Award for Fiction.